¶ Just another avatar
We’ve become… scratch that. We are empty avatars on meaningless social networks.
¶ The day I learned to let go
…was the best day of my life.
¶ Insanely simple
These days I learnt that there’s no such thing as too simple. After years of design work, this is a relieve. I’ve told clients that simple is the way to go, but they always asked for more beautiful complex things.
¶ Speed up web development
These are a couple of tips and tricks about how to speed up your web development process. Most of us use basically the same tools: Django or Ruby on Rails, Sass, Git and a nice text editor like Sublime Text, Textmate or Coda.
¶ The dawn of a new era
This article is about a man, a machine and a thousand lines of code. Scratch that, it’s about an idea. This is how things begin. You got an idea, you work on it — there’s nothing else. My idea started way back in 2007 when I created a WordPress theme to relieve the pain of bad designed templates people had to deal with.
¶ I'm stuck with writing
Before I begin, I want to say that writing isn’t a easy task for me. I’m not a native English speaker and I mostly feel embarrassed every time I think I make a mistake. This happens probably because being a designer, I’m also a perfectionist. Sometimes perfection gets in the way of doing things. So, this piece of text is about how can I solve the perfectionist writing complex.
¶ The future of RSS is microdata
Thanks to Google the web is free again. Reader wasn’t quite friendly towards web standards. It wasn’t that the Reader acted like a prison for RSS, it was the fact that it felt more like an hospice. It kept us sane every morning, but at the end of the day we worshiped a service that wasn’t open. Now it is gone and web is free again. One day I want to say the same thing about social networks.
¶ What will our kids think?"
We say stupid things on Twitter, we post self made pictures on Instagram that look like those from glossy magazines, we do the same thing on Facebook, but when we are actually drunk. The worst of all these things get shared on Tumblr. Everything is broadcasted live 24/7.
¶ Learn HTML and CSS easily
I often see articles like Getting Started with Web Design where the author recommends to read a few, but not very small books even for something easy as learning HTML and CSS.
¶ Stop innovating!
We should strive for invention (discovery), not for innovation (something new). Why? Because a great idea is always better than a new idea. Greatness is not a given, it can only be achieved.